Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)
Author
Cong, Qian
Author
Zhang, Jing
Author
Shen, Jinhui
Author
Grishin, Nick V.
text
Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-10-11
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3677235
1ee19d5d-27cf-4c93-989c-3fe3eb467203
1942-1354
3677235
BA35690A-FC73-4E5A-A805-FE9550275FEC
Cerba
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
199EACE1-E34F-4266-8CAA-46783F667A0A
Type
species.
Zea martini
Distant and Pryer, 1887
.
Definition.
Previously placed in
Acerbas
de Nicéville, 1895
(
type
species
Hesperia anthea
Hewitson, 1868
), this genus is not monophyletic with it and is sister to
Zela
de Nicéville, 1895
(
type
species
Zela zeus
de Nicéville, 1895
) instead (
Fig. 10
). Keys to J.
22.4 in
Evans (1949)
. Diagnosed by the following combination of characters: mostly brown above wings with small forewing spots, milky areas by hindwing anal margin and broad central band on hindwing below; forewing vein CuA
2
originates in the middle between wing base and the origin of vein CuA
1
; uncus broad, bilobed caudad, indistinctly separated from tegumen; tegumen with small side processes and a long central process; penis bulky and stout; valva twice as long as broad, with a prominent and rounded ampulla that is separated from a narrow but large harpe gradually upturned and rounded at the dorsal end protruding above ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly103.51.12:A1212T, aly
2618.5.1
:
T1489
A, aly420.23.4:A277C, aly276561.5.1:G1724G (not C), aly276561.5.1:A1721A (not G), aly
1624.1.10
:G534G (not A).
Etymology.
The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed by removing the first and last letters from the name of the genus that the
type
species was previously attributed to.
Species included.
Only the
type
species.
Parent taxon.
Tribe Erionotini Distant, 1886.